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In a couple of weeks I’ve been beta testing Eric Trivierge’s PassManager Softimage addon, and it is quite amazing. It let’s you basically copy and paste Passes, Scene, Partitions, Renderer and Overrides options between different scenes, which can be time-saving in a lot of sittuations.

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Another great tool is Fabricio Chamon’s “Create Extrusion Along Curve”, which is incredibly build upon ICE Modeling. It’s been a long waited function and he’s improving it super fast. This one is the third video of development:

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I didn’t do programming, and actually one year ago I didn’t even know what a ‘string’ was. But I’ve been using a little bit of python to automate tasks within Softimage. It’s still challenging, but excited too. Now I feel like I was living in a foreign country without knowing it’s language…

So, here’s my first script. It’s dumb, but for me it’s very useful: it places a null as a parent of the selected objects, respecting the rest of the hierarchy; and if you hold down Ctrl, Alt or Shift, it places the null as a child…

Even for the simplest rig, like a rock, I find myself always putting an extra parent object for the animation controller, so it can be constrained at a higher level and the controller is still free to animate…

I’m working at Casa Digital, mostly doing ArchViz, but also rigging and animating in Softimage. We’ve just uploaded a site about all the infrastructures changes the city of Rio de Janeiro is having for it’s upcoming Olympics. This one below is the “Tomorrow Museum”, designed by Santiago Calatrava, and the image below links to the official site.